“If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?” IfsCountryPayBirthMajorsRateCurrentsDebtEnormousLowestDeveloped CountryBirth Rate Author:Jim Rogers
“Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.” WantYearsBelieveRealityCertainDestinySeaBirthHigherAreasRiversSouthResponseRateDon't BelieveJewIsraelDuesMinoritiesPalestinianSouth AfricaJordanApartheidDemographicsBirth RateDisengagementMediterranean Sea Author:Ehud Olmert
“Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.” CountryBirthHigherRateAccessProfessional LifeBirth Rate Author:Claude Martin
“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveLongStillsMomentsWould BeDiesNextI BelieveBornLinesSinVisionFiguresBirthResponseRatePopulationExcessAccurateTennyson Author:Charles Babbage
“The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.” CausesDependsBearsBirthPeriodsIncreaseRatePopulationProportionExcess Book:ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS Source: ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS
“There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.” IfsRiskBirthIncreaseRateGardeningPregnantDefectsBirth Defects Author:Emily Oster
“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?” WellsMayHomeCausesSimpleEffectsBabyBirthRoseRatePopulationCreditGermanyMistakenCause And EffectTemptingCorrelationPseudoscienceBirth RateStorksHome Birth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.” IfsMatterMotherBirthEuropeRateInjuryHospitalsInfectionComplicationAdmissionMidwifeCesarean Author:Ina May Gaskin
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.” GivingReasonSituationEconomicBirthGive MeClimateRateOptimisticRisingBeing OptimisticBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.” NeedsHumansMatterMotherRightsWeekBirthSurvivalIncreaseRateHuman RightsPopulationAbortionOppositionMortalitySensibilityUrgencyDecreaseBirth ControlPrecedenceMorbidity Author:Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
“You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.” KnowsMindIdeasWarPoorBirthRateHopefullyDistractionTossExamBirth Rate Author:James Tiptree Jr.
“One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness” MeanNaturalImpossibleBirthIncreaseRatePopulationSicknessMortalityReducingFamineReductionDemographicsInsufficientBirth RateDraconian Author:Robert McNamara
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke
“It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.” FactsBirthRateImmigrantsIllegalExceedResidentsIllegal ImmigrantsBirth Rate Author:John Linder
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.” TurnsGrowsHalfLibertyDemocracyProduceTheoryBirthMassUniversalEncouragementSlaveryRateWitSecureAssuranceDeliberateSuffrageIgnobleUniversal SuffrageBirth RatePopular Education Author:H. L. Mencken
“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindMeanChildrenSocialInterestMillionsPlansSecurityBirthTenTaxesPercentInvestmentRateFinancialAverageEggsRetirementOne TimeSocial SecurityNestsInterest RateAdviser Author:Cal Thomas
“Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.” CountryHelpingAmericaFallOpportunityNamesSexPerfectTvsBirthRateSolveTennisLegendsAdsAmbassadorsSwedenSwedishBirth RateBorg Author:Argus Hamilton
“We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.” ThinkingShouldIdeasShowsFallGoneBirthLosingRateTraditionalJapanStoppingUrgencyVergeSense Of UrgencyBirth RateDays Gone By Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.” MenWarEventsBirthAdvantageAreasRateMutationAtomic WarBirth Rate Author:William S. Burroughs
“The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.” MayCountryEarthPoorBirthLowsRateHardestBirth RateHardest Hit Author:William S. Burroughs
“Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.” GivingMeanCountryStatesUnitedNumbersUnited StatesBirthRateUsaExpensiveMortalityPregnantOther Countries Author:Robin Lim
“Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.” BirthMethodRateVotingFavourBirth Rate Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.” CountryBodyHappensFallBirthRateThings HappenFacilityBirth ControlBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.” YearsBelieveWellsCountryFactsMillionsGoneBirthTenLimitsEuropeRateIncludingOther CountriesSeventiesBirth Rate Author:Indira Gandhi
“The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansChildrenHas BeensStillsProblemLastsChoicesHuman BeingsViewsBirthHappeningsWestRateSolveAlternativesFewerAcceptableOfferingBetter OffDroppingEcologicalVictorianLearBirth RateVictorian Times Author:David Attenborough
“I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an issue. I think the US is more shielded from it than most countries in the world. It has a higher birth rate than Japan, immigration is tolerated here unlike probably it is in Japan. I don't think it's as big an issue in the US as it is elsewhere in the world.” ThinkingWorldCountryProblemBirthCrisisRateImmigrationRetirementElsewhere Author:Martin Gilbert
“We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's no excusing the lack of moral urgency to do something about this environmental crisis. We see Flint, Michigan, for example, and the attention it's gotten, but what most Americans don't seem to realize is that this lead problem is not confined to just Flint. There are over 3,000 jurisdictions that have twice the lead levels in people's blood than Flint does. We're now seeing more people being exposed to the truth about environmental injustice in our country.” PeopleCountryProblemRealizingAttentionMoralStudyBirthCrisisEnvironmentalRateInjusticeUrgency Author:Cory Booker
“There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-trained labor force at a time when the European birth rate is dropping at a catastrophic rate and Europe is graying. It offers opportunities for greater trade and investment to the benefit of both Turkey and Europe.” CountryOpportunityEconomicBirthLaborTradeInvestmentRate Author:Andrew Mango
“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.” FirstsNationsFeltFateBirthRateBoundsEmpiresReproductionDecadenceBirth Rate Author:Benito Mussolini
“I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.” BirthResearchProgramRateMarchLegislationDefectsReducingSurveillanceDimesPreventionBirth Defects Author:Solomon Ortiz
“UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.” ShouldBelieveCountryShowsFallOpportunityLeftI BelieveGrowthPoorPracticeStudyBirthGainsImpactRatePopulationCurrentsPlanningIncomeDevelopingEmpoweringFortyEarningTacticsIntimidationDeveloping CountriesPopulation GrowthFamily PlanningBirth Rate Author:Muhammad Yunus
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.” BelieveHardUseNaturalSimpleSpaceLeaderMillionsBirthTruth IsMassUnderstoodLogicMethodRateBoundsPopulationLimitationFollowersPreferenceRocketsStarvationHard To BelieveSimple TruthsContraceptivesEmigrationBirth Rate Author:Richard Dawkins
“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” HumansMayEnoughProblemWould BeLife IsOrderDealsNumbersMankindBirthHighestTasksRegardTablesSacredRateDareDefenseBreadRationalHuman LifeAbortionGuestsArtificialIrrationalAffirmationDiminishAssemblyBanquetsBirth Rate Author:Pope Paul VI